Android - GPS voice commands over Bluetooth?

[Rockhead261]

I have ZERO Bluetooth experience, so here's a potentially dumb question...

Will an Android device running a GPS app give turn commands through a Bluetooth device if paired & connected? My intention is to mount the device to my motorcycle bars, run GPS, and get turn commands via a helmet headset.

Doable?

[JimmyD]

Absolutely doable.

You just need to make sure the bluetooth headset you buy is A2DP capable, and your Android device must also be A2DP capable (if it's a newer Android phone, it more than likely is capable for A2DP bluetooth connectivity).

If the bluetooth is paired and connected to the device, but NOT connected via A2DP, you will only be able to use it for phone calls.

In other words, A2DP bluetooth just means you can listen to Android music apps, voice assistant apps, game apps, and of course navigation through the bluetooth headset.

EDIT... I listen to turn by turn instructions from my Google Navigation GPS app through my bluetooth headset using:
- Motorola Droid Bionic smartphone
- Jawbone Icon A2DP bluetooth headset

[Rockhead261]

Absolutely doable.

You just need to make sure the bluetooth headset you buy is A2DP capable, and your Android device must also be A2DP capable

Good info, thanks!

A quick gander at the Moto site here shows that my 2+ year old OG Droid X has a full alphabet of Bluetooth profiles, including A2DP, so I suppose all I need to do is get the right headset.

This gives me a viable workaround to the $800+ option that Harley want to push on its riders with the H-D branded Garmin 660 install

t'anks again!

[Jesse]

This gives me a viable workaround to the $800+ option that Harley want to push on its riders with the H-D branded Garmin 660 install

t'anks again!

Jesus.. Your android phone can pretty much do anything you could imagine, within reason. If not out of the box, then with a 3rd party app, or perhaps with a root.. but still.. pretty much anything.

For example, I connect a wireless ps3 controller to my Galaxy Nexus via bluetooth, hook it to my HDTV via MHL -> HDMI adapter.. and viola, real portable gaming system.

[Rockhead261]

Jesus..

Yeah, no kidding. Harley motorcycle are not really terribly overpriced until you start adding crap to them. Those purty chromey custom thingies will break your back.

Your android phone can pretty much do anything you could imagine, within reason. If not out of the box, then with a 3rd party app, or perhaps with a root.. but still.. pretty much anything.

No doubt. I remember reading an Android review years ago... they summed it up by saying an Android device could launch the space shuttle. Glad to hear the GPS app will do what I want with BT... now I just have to bite the bullet and get a full face helmet....